Impressionism Quotes

Impressionism Quote of the day

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

Impressionism means taking inspiration directly from nature, trusting your senses rather than what you think you know.

A good impression is lost so quickly.

No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.

The true impressionism is realism. So many people do not observe.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

My knowledge of art ended at impressionism.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

The word 'impressionism' as applied to art has been abused, and in the general acceptance of the term has become perverted.

Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.

Impressionism came about because it suddenly became apparent that pure colours mix in the eye in a more dazzling way than they have ever been mixed in paint.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw.

Light is impressionism.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

A one woman cabaret of emotional impressionism

I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw.

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

I want to be famous but unknown!

The difference between writers and readers is similar to the difference between expressionism and impressionism. Writers want to express themselves and readers want to be impressed.